SMB3 encryption performance

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:22:29PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > If you prefer something which is LGPL, then use nettle [1]. GnuTLS switched 
> > from libgcrypt to libnettle ...
> > 
> > libcrypt from OpenSSL is another options. libressl is not in any distribution 
> > right now.
> > 
> > 
> > 	-- andreas
> > 
> > 
> > [1] http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
> 
> http://rem.eifzilla.de/archives/2012/11/27/the-tragedy-of-gnu-copyright-assignments
> 
> This is a minefield. Do we really want to participate? These fights
> tell me that consensus over a crypto library in the Free Software
> world is lightyears away. That would be a good reason to go and do it
> on our own.

Sorry for the spam, but the deeper you dig the worse it
gets:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTcxNDE

has the lines

> GNU Nettle 3.0 is a major update to the library that breaks
> ABI compatibility with earlier versions of Nettle but is
> "mostly" source-level API compatible. Besides fixing a
> number of bugs and reworking some library interfaces, new
> features to Nettle 3.0 include:

Another Python2/3 situation? I can literally see the #ifdef
hell around security-sensitive code. No, thanks.

Volker

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